Cooking Quotes - Page 17

• There is no way to understand the public reaction to the sight of a Freak smashing a coconut with a hammer on the hood of a white Cadillac in a Safeway parking lot unless you actually do it, and I tell you it's tense.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Food, Sight, White

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, Simon and Schuster

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• There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.

  E. W. Howe

  Party, Food, People

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• There was a little plate of hothouse nectarines on the table, and there was another of grapes, and another of sponge-cakes, and there was a bottle of light wine ... 'This is my frugal breakfast ... Give me my peach, my cup of coffee, and my claret.'

  Charles Dickens

  Coffee, Food, Wine

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.349

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• They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.

  A. E. Housman

  Food, Meat, Arsenic

  A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• This has got to be the most expensive food ever laminated.

  Marian Burros

  Food, Culinary, Expensive

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• Tis not her coldness, father, That chills my labouring breast; It's that confounded cucumber I've ate and can't digest.

  Richard Harris Barham

  Father, Food, Cucumbers

  Richard Harris Barham (1847). “The Ingoldsby Legends Or Mirth and Marvels”, p.357

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• To me, peanut butter is the breakfast of champions!

  Greg Louganis

  Food, Champion, Peanut Butter

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• TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Pigs, Culinary

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.229, University of Georgia Press

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• Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter.

  Andy Rooney

  Food, Hunters, Vegetarian

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• Velveeta: you can eat it - or wax your car with it!

  Judy Garland

  Food, Car, Culinary

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• We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Food, Wine, Healthy

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.530, Simon and Schuster

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• What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie?

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Thanksgiving, Food, Eye

  1844 'The Pumpkin,' stanza 3.

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• What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head.

  Andrew Marvell

  Food, Apples, Life Is

  'The Garden' (1681) st. 5

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• What you eat and drink is 50 percent of life.

  Gerard Depardieu

  Food, Drink, Culinary

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• When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour. It marks the lifeward turn. The heart wakens from coma and its dyspnea ends. Its strengthening pulse is to cross over into campground, to believe that the world has not been altogether lost or, if lost, then not altogether in vain.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Believe, Food, Heart

  1951 The Hour.

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• When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it.

  Jacques Pepin

  Food, Moving, Thinking

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• Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.

  Lewis Carroll

  Food, Might, Culinary

  'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865) ch. 7

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• Wine enlivens the human soul.

  Euripides

  Food, Wine, Soul

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• Wine is a splendid thing in and of itself, but it is nonetheless proper to examine the high nutritional and hygienic values of wine from a scientific point of view. We are convinced that scientists will thus perform a service to mankind, since at the same time they will help determine the measure beyond which its use is a misuse for all creation.

  Pope Pius XII

  Food, Wine, Views

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• Wine was given us by God, not that we might be drunken, but that we might be sober. It is the best medicine when it has the best moderation to direct it. Wine was given to restore the body's weakness, not to overturn the soul's strength.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Food, Wine, Medicine

  Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.), Saint John Chrysostom (1983). “A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church”

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• Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Food, Woe, Sauce

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• You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.

  Compton Mackenzie

  Food, Pieces, Cucumbers

  'Vestal Fire' (1927) bk. 1, ch. 3

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• You do not sew with a fork and I see no reason why you should eat with knitting needles.

  Henry Beard

  Food, Knitting, Reason Why

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• I think I'm pretty laid back. I like cooking, being at home, and going to concerts. And I love to shop!

  Misty Copeland

  Home, Thinking, Laid Back

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• When I'm in the country with all of the kids around and cooking, that's when I'm most relaxed. When I'm in the country I like to cook.

  Kate Moss

  Country, Kids, Cooks

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